November 2013

UD is honored to have Dr. Paul Giem as an occasional visitor. Here is Dr. Giem’s bio: Paul Giem, medical research Dr. Giem is assistant professor of emergency medicine at Loma Linda University. He holds a B.A. in chemistry from Union College, Nebraska, an M.A. in religion from Loma Linda University and an M.D. from Loma Linda University. Dr. Giem has published research articles in the areas of religion and medicine. His current research includes work on carbon-14 dating methods. He is author of the book Scientific Theology, which deals with a number of science–Bible areas, including dating methodology and biblical chronology. http://creation.com/paul-giem-medical-research-in-six-days One of the other UD commenters, franklin, is having a discussion with Dr. Giem in another thread. Read More ›

John Jeremiah Sullivan’s essay, One of us, is filled with egregious errors of fact in its narration of the history of man’s attitudes towards animals, down through the ages. In today’s post, I’ll be focusing on the period from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages. I wrote at the beginning of my essay that when an essayist aims to inform his readers – as Sullivan clearly does – then he has an obligation to get his facts straight. In Part One and Part Two of my reply to Sullivan, I detailed his scientific and philosophical errors, respectively. These errors are excusable, as there is currently a very wide range of views among scientists and philosophers on the subject of Read More ›

Alexander Oparin’s 1924 prediction that origin of life research would be solved “very, very soon” may have been premature, but now, almost a century later, evolutionists have apparently found their much needed solution. In fact they have several solutions.  Read more

In my last post, I focused on the scientific errors underlying John Jeremiah Sullivan’s claim that we occupy a continuum of consciousness with other animals. In today’s much briefer post, I’d like to critique Sullivan’s philosophical errors. Part Two: Sullivan’s philosophical errors Chapter 6 – What science can and cannot do One of the major flaws in Sullivan’s elegantly crafted essay is its failure to acknowledge the inherent limitations of science. Nowhere is this clearer than in Sullivan’s discussion of animal consciousness. He writes: If we put aside the self-awareness standard … it becomes possible to say at least the following: the overwhelming tendency of all this scientific work, of its results, has been toward more consciousness. More species having Read More ›

“Doubt is conquered by faith, just as it is faith which has brought doubt into the world.” Søren Kierkegaard